Wrestling dropped from Olympics, but has 2020 Games chance

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Wrestling has been dropped as an Olympic sport, the IOC announced Tuesday – but it will have a chance to be part of the 2020 Olympic Games, the location of which has not yet been decided. The IOC dumped wrestling Tuesday and has reportedly also been reviewing Taekwondo and modern Pentathlon as sports that might go.

Wushu, a popular Chinese sport, will compete with wrestling and other sports for 1 Olympics slot in 2020

Wrestling will be competing for one slot in 2020 with seven other sports: baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports.

To say this is a shame is an understatement. The Olympics are supposed to be a display of sports from around the world. No sport is more historically global than wrestling. Every culture and nation throughout history have created their own form of the sport.

Secondly, it is a sport that costs nothing to participate in. No fancy equipment, no sports complexes, etc... Wrestling is a sport where even the poorest of the poor countries can have success in.

Plus, the past 12 years have DOUBLED the amount of countries that have participated in womens' wrestling at the Olympics. If a sport is growing so fast, why cut it?